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Biographical details

I am a musicologist, specialising in the study of Australian Aboriginal musics, immigrant musics and the digital humanities (particularly archiving and repatriation of ethnographic field recordings as a site of interaction between researchers and cultural heritage communities). I have studied community music practices through fieldwork in Australia, Italy and the Philippines. Themes of my research include analysis of musical action in place, the language of song, and the aesthetics of cross-cultural musical practice. I also publish on theoretical issues, including analysis of non-Western music, and research implications of digital technologies.

Teaching and supervision

Jodie Kell (PhD candidate, University of Sydney), "The role of women in music-making in Maningrida" (co-supervision with Kathy Marsh, Myfany Turpin and Clint Bracknell)

Anthony Linden Jones (PhD candidate, University of Sydney), "Themes of signification: representing Aboriginality in Australian film music, 1930 to 1970" (co-supervision with James Wierzbicki and Kathleen Nelson)

Sylvia Huang (PhD candidate, University of Sydney), "Buddhist music in Taiwan" (co-supervision with Catherine Ingram)

Reuben Brown (Sydney) (PhD, 2016), "The performance of kun-borrk, an Aboriginal song and dance tradition of western Arnhem Land, and its role in contemporary life at Goulburn Island and Kunbarlanja, Northern Territory." (co-supervision with Paul Dwyer and Martin Thomas)

Walsh, M., Barwick, L., Marett, A. (2011). Archiving Language & Song in Wadeye: Future Access to Song Knowledge. 2nd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC). University of Hawaii.

Bailes, F., Barwick, L. (2008). Memory for tempo in Oral Music Traditions: Evidence for absolute tempo in Aboriginal Ceremonial Song? The 10th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC10), Not-Known.

Marett, A., Yunupingu, M., Langton, M., Gumbula, N., Barwick, L., Corn, A. (2006). The National Recording Project for Indigenous Performance in Australia: Year One in Review. The Australia Council - Backing Our Creativity: the National Education and the Arts Symposium (2005), Sydney: Australia Coucil for the Arts. [More Information]

Barwick, L. (2003). The Endangered Cultures Research Group's Digitisation Project: Using Digital Audio for Musicological Research. Computing Arts: DigitalResources for Research in the Humanities, Sydney: Sydney University Press.

Bailes, F., Barwick, L. (2008). Memory for tempo in Oral Music Traditions: Evidence for absolute tempo in Aboriginal Ceremonial Song? The 10th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC10), Not-Known.

Barwick, L. (2003). The Endangered Cultures Research Group's Digitisation Project: Using Digital Audio for Musicological Research. Computing Arts: DigitalResources for Research in the Humanities, Sydney: Sydney University Press.